Broadcast, COM take "Schitt's"

[bobjersey]

Debmar-Mercury had announced in October 2019 that the Canadian smash would move to Fox-owned stations among others this fall, but the other possible outlets were not mentioned then... they are now, and they'll be "flowing" as of Monday (9.28):

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/schitts-creek-where-to-watch-national-syndication-1234779103/ (link)

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[Kevin M.]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:43 PM 'bobjersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Debmar-Mercury had announced in October 2019 that the Canadian smash would move to Fox-owned stations among others this fall, but the other possible outlets were not mentioned then... they are now, and they'll be "flowing" as of Monday (9.28):

The Mrs has been binge-watching this all week. I would not have expected her to take to it as aggressively as she has. 

She’s a keeper.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/schitts-creek-where-to-watch-national-syndication-1234779103/ (link)



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[Dave Sikula]

I could never get past either the too-smirky-by-half/aren't-we-naughty title and the first fifteen minutes of the pilot.

--Dave Sikula

[Diner]

The CW station in Philly will be running them weeknights at 11 pm.

What's interesting, though, is that according to Xfinity's built-in guide, they are only running the odd-numbered episodes. The first week they're running episodes 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. And continuing that pattern on the next week.

I had been planning on catching up, but if all I get to see are the odd-numbered episodes, what's the point? 

[Jon Delfin]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:32 AM Diner <bway...@gmail.com> wrote:

The CW station in Philly will be running them weeknights at 11 pm.

What's interesting, though, is that according to Xfinity's built-in guide, they are only running the odd-numbered episodes. The first week they're running episodes 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. And continuing that pattern on the next week.

I had been planning on catching up, but if all I get to see are the odd-numbered episodes, what's the point? 

a dollar says they're running the evens immediately following the odds, so two each night, but the guide hasn't caught up yet 

[PGage]

I don’t know if you literally mean you did not watch past the first 15 min, but I think you have put your finger on the show. The show is not really what it seems to be at first. It goes from unlivable to tolerable to one of the most likable shows one could imagine.

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[Brad Beam]

Fork over the dollar: the schedule on my local station’s website (wvah.com) shows 1/3/5 etc daily at 2:30 am.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

I'm looking at two different program guides (TV Guide vs. TitanTV) that are showing different information right now.

Both agree that it's going to be running on two stations (with different ownership) in the L.A. market.

Both agree that KDOC is running two episodes a night, at 12:30 A.M. and 1:00 A.M., with all episodes in order (1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc.)

Both agree that KCOP is running one episode on weeknights at 6:30 P.M., and then three episodes Saturday night (11:00 P.M., 11:30 P.M., and midnight) and two episodes Sunday night (11:00 P.M. and 11:30 P.M.).

However, TV Guide says the KCOP weeknight episodes will be 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, and the weekend episodes will be 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.

TitanTV says that the weeknight episodes will be 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and the weekend episodes will also be 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

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[Kevin M.]

Hmmm... wonder why they don’t get their Schitts together?

This has been my pun of the year. Good night, America. Drive safely on the way home. 

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[Karen Owen]

 This reminds me of when X Files went into syndication and the

stations that took it were supposed to run 2 episodes per weekend while

the local station running it here ran only 1 each week on

Saturday night opposite SNL.  It took me a while to figure out

why they were only showing every other show.



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[Dave Sikula]

I literally mean 15 minutes. In recent memory, the shows for which I couldn't even last a single episode were this and "GLOW" (that one was ten minutes). I'll usually give a show (even one I hated, like "The Great") at least one episode, and if I'm on the fence, three, but despite my liking Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, I can't stand Dan Levy and was done with "Schitt's" in a quarter of an hour.

People told me "Parks and Rec" was likeable, too, and I'd rather have root canal surgery than endure that again.

--Dave Sikula

[Dave Sikula]

Isn't KDOC still PBS? Seems odd for them to pick it up. KCOP, to me, will always be the station it was in the 60s. The absolute bargain basement of low-budget local TV, playing public domain movies and the dregs of syndication, so I guess "Schitt's" fits right in  there for me.

--Dave Sikula

[PGage]

You almost always dislike shows ai like, so no predictions. My only point is this show is intended to be disliked in its first few episodes- which doesn’t mean it won’t be disliked by you all the way through.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

Are you thinking of KOCE (Channel 50, which became the primary PBS station for L.A. after KCET dropped PBS)?

KDOC is Channel 56, a commercial independent station.

They’re both Orange County-based, as the call letters would imply, but that doesn’t make any difference to the average viewer.

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[Carlton Doerner]

I had friends who kept insisting I watch this. I tried once and failed. They prodded me to just keep going because it gets better. So I forced myself through 2 seasons. I would rather have jumped off a bridge than ever see another second of it.  I wasn’t just indifferent to it. I actively disliked it.  I have watched a lot of questionably bad shows and enjoyed them (The Single Guy, Platypus Man). I love Eugene and O’Hara as well. But this, this I could not do, even for my closest friends. 

The most positive thing I can say about it, is that they didn’t go hard into “fish out of water” territory. They seemed relatively capable instead of being like.. “Rich person doesn’t understand how to use a vending machine” type thing.  Fish out of water stories are fine, but so many times they also make them idiots and I find that tiresome. This show mostly avoided that in the time I watched.

- Carlton

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[JW]

> The CW station in Philly will be running them weeknights at 11 pm.
> What's interesting, though, is that according to Xfinity's built-in guide,
> they are only running the odd-numbered episodes. The first week they're
> running episodes 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. And continuing that pattern on the next

> week.

Do some digging. It looks like the Pittsburgh station that's carrying it has the odd-numbered episodes at 10:30 pm and the even-numbered ones at 2:00 am.

[Diner]

I will keep an eye on the schedule to see what happens.

I finally watched the first episode last night on Netflix. 

And even though the only mildly racy content was a couple F-bombs, it was enough to convince me that I probably wouldn't want to watch a censored version on broadcast TV.

As for the show itself... well, I wasn't crazy about it, though normally I would give it another shot. 

However, with the pandemic raging, I am not 100% sure how secure my job is in the long run. So seeing a show about a family that loses everything is a bit of a trigger for me. I don't think it would be good for my mental health to keep watching it right now, no matter how funny it is.